Thermodynamic Fail, Entropy stays the same or decreases in living things until death at which point it begins to increase.
Whatever math you think you are talking about is wrong too though Monte Carlo simulations are used in biology as well as other sciences.
Entropy staying the same only applies to closed systems; black box. Such systems will reach a steady state and then stop changing in terms of entropy. Life is open system and therefore entropy will increase via the second law. We breathe, eat and eliminate waste. Steady state is never achieved. Even in death, we decompose, give off gases, depolymerize and dehydrate; open system. Although a good old fashion Egyptian tomb may reach close to a closed system over time; mummy.
You are partially right about an aspect of life that decreases entropy. This is connected to structural polymers of life, RNA, DNA and protein. As we grow and add these polymers, they define lower entropy, relative to their free monomers or base units; amino acids to protein will lower the entropy due to loss atomic freedom.
These structural materials, by defining lower entropy, create an entropic potential or a potential to increase the entropy within life. One of the bottlenecks in Abiogenesis is making protein from amino acids. This reaction does not want to proceed all by itself since it lowers entropy, relative the all free amino acids just floating in water bending and vibrating. You need to add energy to force this situation, such as dehydration on clay by solar energy. This is useful to life, in that in this way we can control the chaos of entropy and make it useful by setting a zone where entropy increase is most likely to occur; on an enzyme.
The big gun that causes the overall entropy of the body to increase is metabolism. The structural entropy of the body's polymers is low. Metabolism is a dynamic response to this entropy deficit. All the food we eat is broken down into smaller and small molecules, all the way to CO2 and H20, with the extraction of energy. The entropy potential enhancement or need to increase is part of the catalytic assistance on enzymes that can result in enthalpy or internal energy change; makes extra energy available to drive synthesis.
Being an open system, the CO2 and water from metabolism is continuely lost through breathing and sweating, etc. However, the polymers of life remain as part of our bodies structures, in a more or less permanent state of lowered entropy. This structure, changes with the stages of life. These more or less permanent structures perpetuates the entropic potential, for food gathering and eating, with the needed entropic increase evolving to consciousness. Neurons have the highest metabolic rates and the structural matrix of the brain, has evolved other ways to increased entropy; neuron firing and ionic currents, that result in the consciousness. Like the body, when we build a bridge, we lower structural entropy of steel atoms and the bridge becomes very dynamic; traffic is drawn to it to increase the entropy. The 2nd law is instinctive.
There are two aspect of entropy, structural and dynamic. The first gets lower as we grow, while the second amplifies as are grow, to help compensate and achieve a net gain in system entropy; 2nd law.
My take on the contrast between Evolution and Creation is based on the mathematical/philosophical approach of each. Life Sciences still use a dice and cards approach. This approach is not consistent with the repeatable order found in life. If life behaved like the life science approaches life of dice and cards, life should be an unpredictable mess of random events. We should not see the exacting template relationships on the DNA. Every birth would be like a lottery with no sure things. They are not modeling life in a way that represents the sure things of life which are in the majority.
Creation, on the other hand, assumes God who is all knowing and all powerful. Conceptually, such an entity would use a much more planned and logical approach to life. Life as we know it is very ordered down to the repeatable nanoscale. We can teach cellular replication since this is very repeatable and not subject to dice and cards every time it happens, like the main math of the life sciences. Do you see the irony? Why use math connected to disorder, to model 99.9% order? Would not used ordered math; rational? No common sense.
Ny guess is this is driven my making money, connected to the medical industries. There is more money in the 0.1% disorder; sickness and mutations, than in the 99.9% organized order within life. If all your body order is perfect, you are not a money cow. Everything is treated as though disorder is the rule; for making money; risk due to the assumption all is disordered. Evolution is treated like a disease; mutation, and not part of an ordered path that leads to even better and better order, as we see in more evolved things. The structural order, by improving, allows more and more control over the dynamic entropy; disorder is better controlled. The DNA is now near perfect, not worse.
I use the concept of entropy as one of my main variables in the water model, since this has to increase, based on natural laws. This provides a vector path for the structural and dynamic order. Water is more connected to the dynamic aspect of entropy, since all reaction occurs in the more fluid water and very often involve adding or taking away water. Entropy is not about dice and cards, or the few exception to the rule, but is fundamental sense of ordered direction; has to net increase over time in the whole universe.
There is concept connected to entropy, called states or entropic states. These are like molecular steps of increasing entropy with fixed entropy values. In life and evolution, these steps are part the fixed and structural features of life, like DNA and they help to order the dynamic. These steps allow for things to remain the same; sweet spots. These entropic states, quantum jump upward in steps, which can be predicted by adding the two; structural and dynamic as mediated by water.
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